Thanks everyone, including 3Dave, jdcooke and Wolf359. And tvining, I've seen your animation work -- very, very polished, in all respects. Your use of high-resolution tiffs to compile video in FCP sure yields a professional product, and your "direction" and scene-planning obviously helps reduce your Poser workload, but I also wish I had your patience! I also found today a plug-in filter for Final Cut Pro made by Lyric (www.lyric.com) that easily creates a travel matte out of any distinguishable object in a video clip (e.g., a ball, a figure with certain chroma or luma characteristics, etc., etc.). That might be a help in post-Poser compositing, too. I'll find out. That said, I'll give each of your suggestions a try. God knows I'm not producing the quality of product that I'd like right now. Skeet